What Do You Know About Animal Shelters?

Overpopulation is a big problem facing many shelters around the country. There are too many hungry mouths and furry faces, and simply not enough room so test yourself about rescue facts and numbers in this quiz.

What Do You Know About Animal Shelters?

About how many pets enter shelters each year?

Are more cats or dogs reclaimed by owners in shelters each year?

Each year about __________ pets are adopted.

What precent of dogs in shelters are purebred (according to Humane Society estimates)?

Is there a higher percentage of people seeking out shelters for cats or for dogs?

Which of the following has contributed to the decrease in euthanized pets from the 1970s to the present?

So sad to think of how many shelter pets spend a large portion of their life living at the shelter. I've seen dogs that have spent over 2 years at the shelter waiting for their forever home. Or puppies that grew up at the shelter and have never known what a home is. Makes me so sad - I wish more people considered adopting a pet first before looking for that purebred puppy.